The Dying Trade

The second volume in The Privateersman Mysteries

1794: For privateersman Harry Ludlow and his partner and younger brother, James, murder and intrigue take more of their time than the hunt for fat trading vessels. Arriving in the squalid, seething port of Genoa, they find it a tinderbox of tension, fed by the discovery of a hanged British sea captain and packs of English and French sailors at one another’s throats. At the behest of Admiral Hood, Harry is drawn into the midst of the lurid murder investigation, only to find himself mired in roiling layers of intrigue, avarice, and danger—and the deadly charms of a beautiful woman. 

About the author

David Donachie (1944–2023) was born in Edinburgh. He always had an abiding interest in military history, including ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, the British navy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the clandestine services during the Second World War. He had more than fifty published novels to his credit, with over a million combined sales. David lived in Deal, the historic English seaport on the border of the English Channel and the North Sea.

Product details

• Authors: David Donachie, David Donachie
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 03.02.2026
• EAN: 9781493095070
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-9507-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 712 g
• Series: The Privateersman Mysteries
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Adventure, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical mysteries, Historical fiction, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Sea Stories, Sea stories, Historical crime and mysteries, Adventure / action fiction